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Unlocking Employee Engagement: Finding The Key to Retention Success

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

While most supply chain employees seem happy in their careers, there are some areas where companies can improve employee engagement and the workplace environment to reduce turnover.

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More Trouble for Boeing, as Online Travel Agency Sees Rise in Customers Filtering Out its Planes

Supply Chain Brain

Kayak said that it experienced a 15-fold increase following the Alaska Airlines incident in the use of its aircraft filter feature, which the company first launched in March 2019.

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Hellios: Vendor Analysis — Supplier information management (SIM) solution overview, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary

Spend Matters

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Hellios, a Supplier Information Management (SIM) solution. In the complex landscape of supplier management, organizations struggle with challenges such as compliance, inconsistent supplier data and growing demands for reporting. Hellios, a supplier information management specialist, addresses these pain points by creating industry-specific communities.

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Navigating Green Marketing Risk

Supply Chain Brain

The use of certain green marketing terms can lead to legal repercussions and financial consequences if not employed accurately and responsibly.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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West Coast ports snag market share from rivals, Los Angeles port chief says

Supply Chain Dive

More normal cargo volume levels are expected for 2024, according to Executive Director Gene Seroka.

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New Year Insights for the procurement solutions and services marketplace 2024: Vizibl

Spend Matters

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers in the market. This year we’re highlighting the customer demands, market movements and advances in procurement tech that are exciting the world of solution providers, how they expect them to shape the S2P landscape next year and how they plan to respond to them.

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Deutsche Bahn Train Drivers Begin Six-Day Strike

Supply Chain Brain

The strike actions from the locomotive drivers’ union GDL came after Deutsche Bahn rejected a third labor deal proposal from the organization.

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CPKC chief executive sees intermodal growth opportunity in Panama

Supply Chain Dive

With drought conditions limiting canal shipping traffic, rail offers an option to keep containers moving.

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Impact of Tariffs on the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

The impacts of tariff are both beneficial in the short run but could be counterproductive in the long run.

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Penetration testing methodologies and standards

IBM Supply Chain Blog

The online space continues to grow rapidly, opening more opportunities for cyberattacks to occur within a computer system, network, or web application. To mitigate and prepare for such risks, penetration testing is a necessary step in finding security vulnerabilities that an attacker might use. What is penetration testing? A penetration test , or “pen test,” is a security test that is run to mock a cyberattack in action.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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Qatar Delays LNG Cargoes to South Europe Amid Red Sea Crisis

Supply Chain Brain

Since January 15, Qatar has diverted at least six shipments destined for Europe around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.

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Dry van freight contracts fall to lowest average in years

Supply Chain Dive

Sluggish freight demand is starting to recover, ACT Research noted.

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Number of German Firms Leaving or Considering Leaving China Doubles, Survey Shows

Supply Chain Brain

Two percent of the companies surveyed said they were selling off their business operations in China, while another 7% said they were considering a sell-off.

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Time for a data center refresh? Get ahead of the growing digital landscape with a modern data center strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

With the seismic shift wrought by generative AI, the pressure is on IT to modernize and optimize to meet the demand. Cloud service platforms abound promising greater elasticity and savings. There are times, though, when organizations prefer to keep certain applications and data in their own data center—security and compliance requirements or control of sensitive data for example.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Balancing Procurement’s Biggest Priorities in the Fast Lane

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Balancing Procurement's Biggest Priorities in the Fast Lane No matter the industry, Sourcing Heroes need to be adept at identifying and balancing procurement’s priorities to make the biggest impact. By Mackenzie Oakley | January 25, 2024 Search Search In the high-octane world of hypercar manufacturing, where precision meets innovation, sourcing heroes like Robert Čačković must navigate a complex landscape of challenges and opportunities.

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Guest Article: 3 Best-Practice Tips for Running Procurement Auctions

CPO Rising

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a guest post from Blake Wetzel, CEO of AIQ, a leader in procurement consulting and e-auctions. AIQ provides an end-to-end service, from performing the spend analysis to sourcing and qualifying vendors to road mapping the overall renegotiation strategy to running auctions, to delivering renegotiated contracts to the client.